A Makai noble, Demitri
Maximoff lives in a castle deep within the mountains of Romania that only
appears during a full moon. The
castle is named after the owner of the land, Zeltzereich. Roughly
100 years ago, he had challenged Berial Aensland. He lost the battle and was
exiled from Makai to the human world with his castle. Sunlight was something
that was troublesome for people of Makai, especially for Demitri, who was
wounded severely from his battle with Berial. If he were to be directly
exposed, his body would be destroyed from the inside and he would disappear.

To avoid the sunlight
and humans, he used what he had left of his powers and created a field to
cover his castle. He used this field to recover his strength and heal his
wounds. For 50 years, he stayed within his casket. As he slowly regained his
strength, he would step out only once a full moon put a shield around his
body. By this time, there were already people that would wander into the
castle. They would somehow hear rumors of treasure's within the castle. They
would bring crosses, stakes, garlic, holy water and silver bullets thinking
they were safe and recklessly attack Demitri. Demitri couldn't help but smile
as such weapons had no effect on him. To Demitri, humans were a low class
vulgar race, but he enjoyed their blood. He enjoyed the blood of innocent
girls the most. To him, it was like drinking the best wine in Makai. Those who
had their blood sucked by Demitri had their body and soul poisoned with
evil.They would become loyal servants to Demitri. Currently, 40 people settle
in Demitri's castle and care for him.

When Demitri recovered 80% of his original power, he was able to temporarily
create an aura around him that would protect him from sunlight. Demitri had
conquered both night and day and had no weaknesses. There were no means for
humans to defeat him. After 100 years of humiliation for his loss, he had
gained alot. He acquired various new abilities and knowledge. The Prince of
Darkness steadily readied himself to take over Makai once again.

The presence of an
alien life form on Earth was an unexpected event for Demitri. Demitri seized
this opportunity to further gain strength and fought against Pyron
and consumed the alien life form. He was confident that he was strong enough
to challenge and defeat the ruler of Makai, Berial.

When he returned to
Makai, he found out that Berial had died and his daughter, Morrigan,
had become heir to the Aensland family and the ruler of Makai. As Demitri
prepared himself to challenge Morrigan, he and his castle were sucked into the
Majigen by Jedah.
Believing that defeating Jedah was an important step, he went off to face
Jedah.

Demitri is
certainly a better
design then that dork that played Dracula in the live action Van Helsing
(2004). Take a look at a real vampire.... As one of the main
protagonists of Darkstalkers, Demitri's badass factor is off the
charts... and he knows it. Demitri's appearance in the Night Warriors
anime did a lot for his design. While Demitri is an awesome visual design, I
always though his moveset could've been more original and fleshed out. He's
pretty much "The Ryu" of the
series, so the simple aspect of his design/moveset makes sense in a way.
Unfortunately, Demitri didn't appear in too many games, so he didn't really get
a chance to evolve much. However, Demitri's epic super move, Midnight Bliss, is
always good times. ;)

On a side note, Demitri's outfit might've inspired Kazuya's
Tekken 5 suit... which is ironic and was possibly done intentionally by
Namco. To state the obvious, Demitri and Kazuya share pretty much the same
hairstyle and both have alternate "demon" forms with wings. Such a
coincidence!